Who was the most /lit/ dictator of the 20th century? I'd

>>8661486
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/10/world/americas/a-chilean-dictators-secret-book-collection-heavy-on-napoleon-light-on-fiction.html

>>8661486
>Both were exceptionally well-read in ideological and philosophical works,
>Go on to turn both their respective countries into torture chambers

Ideology, not even once

>>8661486
the greatest lit dictator to ever have lived would have been Trotsky. stalin is a philistine in comparison. the sheer literary output and breadth of Trotsky's writings is immense and his style is unrivalled.

>>8661538
>torture chambers
That's not how you spell glorious republics

>>8661547
I'm just saying, if your goal is basically absolute power, as Stalin's at least clearly was, why the ideological pretensions?

If he wanted to do something contrary to Marxist ideology, he would've done it anyway.

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Lets talk about the MOST /lit/ dicator, Qin Shi Huang, who had all shitposters buried because their philosophy offended him.

Mussolini worked as a journalist and got to manage a newspapers.

>>8661486
The world is better run by illiterates than by these tards...

>>8661486
Hitler also read a lot, but mostly religious texts and woo. There's a book called Hitler's library if I am not mistaken.
Napoleon was another avid reader.

>>8661608
I'm starting to think the same.

>>8661618
Hitler's favorite author was someone who wrote the early 20th century equivalent of YAshit, literally books about cowboys.

>>8661706
Einstein loved Karl May to

Hitler had a library of some 10 thousand books apparently

>>8661486
Stalin wasn't a dictator. But you are right about he being a well read man.

obama of course

>>8661486
Mao. Wrote loads, poetry as well as prose. Even the h8rs appreciate his calligraphy.

Stalin wrote a respectable linguistics paper .

>>8661538
Turns out that cruelty is an effective means to scare people away from resisting.

>>8661545
Trotsky as a dictator would have been so fun. There'd be far less cruelty, but many more accidental deaths through his constant revolutionary policies in pursuit of the ultimate stateless communism.

>>8661936
Nigga I'm a literal tankie and I can admit that Stalin was a dictator. He just wasn't an entirely malevolent one.

>>8662837
>I'm a tankie and i would've liked to seen trotsky as a dictator
TROTSKYIST SCUM
GET
O U T

>>8662199
tfw he had a Hunan dialect so I can't understand any of his speakings despite being fluent in Mandarin

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>>8663042

Bush

>>8663047
Eh, most Chinese people know that feel. Chiang Kaishek's hard to understand too, but maybe a bit easier than Mao.

>>8661565
Mussolini also wrote a Novel about a Romance between a Nun and a Priest

>>8664927
And poetry

Hitler carried Schopenhauer everywhere with him during WW1, it's definitely him.